This image was posted on Facebook by a Wolf Pack gangster after Sukh Dhak and his bodyguard Thomas Mantel were gunned down outside a Burnaby hotel Nov. 26. There is an on-going conflict in B.C. between associates of the Dhak-Duhre crew and an alliance dubbed the Wolf Pack of some Red Scorpions, Hells Angels and Independent Soldiers.Facebook
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This image was posted on Facebook by a Wolf Pack gangster after Sukh Dhak and his bodyguard Thomas Mantel were gunned down outside a Burnaby hotel Nov. 26.Facebook
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The Vancouver Sun has learned that Sukh Dhak associate Manjot Dhillon, who was fatally shot Sunday, posted images on his Facebook page days before he was killed of bloodied dead wolves in an apparent reference to his Wolf Pack rivals.Facebook
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The Vancouver Sun has learned that Sukh Dhak associate Manjot Dhillon, who was fatally shot Sunday, posted images on his Facebook page days before he was killed of bloodied dead wolves in an apparent reference to his Wolf Pack rivals.Facebook
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Sgt Jennifer Pound talks to the media about two shootings in Surrey on January 14, 2013. Pound confirmed Tuesday morning that Surrey had a another fatal shooting overnight Monday.Wayne Leidenfrost
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Three people are dead following two separate weekend murders in Surrey, according to reports. Two men were found dead in an apartment parkade late Sunday in the 9400-block of 128th Street.Shane MacKichen
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A tarp covers a body in a parkade, as police investigate a shooting on 128th Street in Surrey on January 14, 2013.Wayne Leidenfrost
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A tarp covers a body in a parkade, as police investigate a shooting on 128th Street in Surrey on January 14, 2013.Wayne Leidenfrost
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A tarp covers a body in a parkade, as police investigate a shooting on 128th Street in Surrey on January 14, 2013.Wayne Leidenfrost
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A tarp covers a body in a parkade, as police investigate a shooting on 128th Street in Surrey on January 14, 2013.Wayne Leidenfrost
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Surrey RCMP were called to a shooting at 168 Street and 76th Avenue. The single male victim was sent to hospital, where he later died.Shane MacKichen
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Surrey RCMP were called to a shooting at 168 Street and 76th Avenue. The single male victim was sent to hospital, where he later died.Shane MacKichen
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Surrey RCMP were called to a shooting at 168 Street and 76th Avenue. The single male victim was sent to hospital, where he later died.Shane MacKichen
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Surrey RCMP were called to a shooting at 168 Street and 76th Avenue. The single male victim was sent to hospital, where he later died.Shane MacKichen
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Surrey RCMP were called to a shooting at 168 Street and 76th Avenue. The single male victim was sent to hospital, where he later died.Shane MacKichen
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METRO VANCOUVER - A gangster linked to the late Sukh Dhak was killed in a targeted shooting early Tuesday in north Surrey, while his associate was left clinging to life.

Manjinder Singh Hairan, 29, was shot to death about 2 a.m. near 127 Street and 112B Avenue in a quiet residential area near the Pattullo Bridge. Fellow Dhak associate Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun, 25, was critically wounded in the attack.

Both men were also targeted by a gunman in the fall of 2011. Police said that was in retaliation for the Aug. 14, 2011 Kelowna shooting that left Red Scorpion Jon Bacon dead and wounded Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach. The Kelowna shooting and the murder of Dhak’s older brother Gurmit in October, 2010, are believed to be the cause of more than 20 shootings over the past two years. No one has been arrested in any of them.

Hairan, who lived in Surrey, was on bail on drug trafficking charges when he was killed about 2 a.m. Tuesday in a laneway.

Hairan’s murder was the fourth in two days in Surrey and the string of killings triggered a public statement from the RCMP assuring local residents they’re safe as long as they’re not criminals.

“If you involve yourself in this level of criminal activity, the likelihood of you ending up dead in a ditch or in jail is very high — I would say it is inevitable,” said Chief Supt. Bill Fordy, who is in charge of Surrey RCMP. “Here, like everywhere else, is not safe for those involved in the violent underworld sub-culture where the law of the jungle still prevails.”

Sgt. Jennifer Pound of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Tuesday that Hairan’s murder is not linked to the double slaying late Sunday of John McGiveron and Geordie Carlow, both 33. The two were shot in the parkade of an apartment complex at 9450 128th St. Both were known to police for property crime.

“IHIT can say that evidence retrieved thus far does not support this homicide to be gang-related,” Pound said.

Earlier Sunday, another Dhak associate, Manjot Dhillon, was shot in a targeted killing that may be linked to the continuing conflict between associates of the Dhak-Duhre crew and an alliance dubbed the Wolf Pack of some Red Scorpions, Hells Angels and Independent Soldiers.

The Vancouver Sun has learned that Dhillon posted images on his Facebook page, a few days before he was killed, of bloodied dead wolves — an apparent allusion to his Wolf Pack rivals. The postings featured a wolf howling on a bluff overlooking a river of blood, as well as a wolf ripping open the bloodied neck of a sheep.

Similar images were posted on Facebook by a Wolf Pack gangster after Sukh Dhak and his bodyguard Thomas Mantel were killed at a Burnaby hotel on Nov. 26.

Pound said IHIT was working closely with gang experts in the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit to collect information on Tuesday’s shooting “and determine who is responsible.”

Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, CFSEU spokesman, said there is no indication of an upswing in gang violence despite the spike in killings in recent days.

“I don’t think two incidents make a trend,” he said Tuesday.

“At any given time, some groups are quote, unquote winning. Some aren’t,” Houghton said.

“We point back to the murder of Gurmit Dhak as the major flashpoint. And there have been a lot of incidents that have stemmed from that, including the murder of his brother two months ago.”

Houghton reiterated public warnings for relatives, friends and associates of targeted gangsters to steer clear of them.

“There are a lot of people who have been associated to the current gang landscape in Metro Vancouver who have been the targets, sometime multiple times, of shootings and homicides and other very violent acts,” Houghton said. “If you associate with these gangsters, … you are potentially putting your personal safety at risk.”

Former solicitor general Kash Heed doesn’t think public warnings are good enough.

“The latest murders are more examples of our failed approach in trying to deal with this perpetuating gang problem,” said Heed, a Liberal MLA and former Vancouver police officer. “Until we dedicate significant appropriate resources and take a comprehensive approach to these issues, we will continually react to these murders occurring throughout Metro Vancouver.”

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